King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls has 150 places in Year 7, sits in Kings Heath in the south of the city, and reserves a quarter of its places for pupil premium children.
It is one of the King Edward VI Foundation schools, so your daughter sits the shared West Midlands entrance test once and the result can be used here and at every other partnership school you have named.
What the school publishes
| What | Camp Hill School for Girls |
|---|---|
| Places in Year 7 | 150 |
| Address | Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7QJ |
| Intake | Girls |
| Entrance test | The shared West Midlands partnership test |
| Qualifying score, 2026 entry | 205, set by the Foundation |
| Priority score, 2026 entry | 224, set by the Foundation |
| Catchment | A defined list of electoral wards, specific to this school |
Those figures come from its determined admissions policy and from the King Edward VI Foundation. Both scores are reset every year once results are in, so treat them as the most recent benchmark rather than a fixed pass mark.
How places are actually allocated
The Foundation uses the same five-category order at each of its schools, and reading it properly explains almost every outcome that looks unfair from outside.
- Looked after and previously looked after children who achieve the qualifying score.
- Children attracting the pupil premium who achieve the qualifying score and live within the catchment area, ranked by distance.
- If fewer than 25% of places have gone to category 2, pupil premium children who achieve the qualifying score and live outside the catchment, until 25% of places have been offered.
- Applicants who achieve the priority score and live within the catchment area, with an older sibling ranking ahead of distance.
- Applicants achieving the qualifying score, ranked by test score.
Two things to take from that. A quarter of places are reserved for pupil premium children, and out-of-catchment applicants are still considered, in category 5, ranked on the mark. Catchment is a queue position rather than a gate.
Note also what a sibling does, which is less than families expect. Where scores are equal, priority goes to a child with a sibling at the school. It never gets a child in on a lower score. See our guide to sibling priority.
The south Birmingham problem
Camp Hill Girls sits in the south of the city alongside Camp Hill Boys and, a little west, Five Ways. That concentration is the thing families in Kings Heath, Moseley and Hall Green need to understand.
Demand around those schools is heavy, and in my experience the scores needed in the south run a little higher than at the more central and northern schools. Not because the paper is harder, but because of where the applicants are.
So if you are in the south, be realistic about where your daughter's score sits in a ranked queue, and look at what else her result opens. See our comparison of the Birmingham girls' grammar schools.
Before you put it on the form
- Check your ward against this school's catchment, not against another's. Each Foundation school publishes its own.
- Declare pupil premium at registration if it applies. A quarter of places turn on it.
- Ask at the open evening what the lowest score offered a place was.
- Rank truthfully. Under equal preference, ambition at the top costs you nothing lower down.
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In the south, the queue is longer
If you live in the Kings Heath area, Camp Hill and Five Ways are the obvious choices on a map. But the scores required for those schools run slightly higher than for the more central and northern schools, so the ones in the south of the city can be a bit more difficult to secure.
That is not about the test being harder anywhere. It is one test for all the schools. It is about where the applicants are, and the south is crowded.
So my advice to a family here is the same as everywhere, but it matters more: get your daughter to the best score she is capable of, understand your catchment properly by ward, and let those two facts build the shortlist between them. Do not pick the school first and work backwards.
Mushtaque Ahmed, Founder of GrammarPath and Bright Mentors
Frequently asked questions
How many places does Camp Hill School for Girls have?
150 places in Year 7. That figure is published in the school's determined admissions policy and is reviewed annually, so confirm the current cycle before relying on it.
What score do you need for Camp Hill Girls?
The King Edward VI Foundation set a qualifying score of 205 and a priority score of 224 for 2026 entry across its schools, and resets both each year. Clearing the qualifying score means being considered; catchment and rank then decide who is offered a place.
Does Camp Hill Girls reserve places for pupil premium children?
Yes. Up to 25% of places go to children attracting the pupil premium who achieve the qualifying score, taken first from inside the catchment area and then from outside it until that quarter is filled.
Can you get into Camp Hill Girls from outside the catchment?
Yes, through the qualifying score category, where applicants are ranked on test score. In practice that usually needs a higher mark than an in-catchment applicant requires, because the in-catchment priority score category is filled first.
Where is Camp Hill School for Girls?
Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7QJ, in the south of the city, close to Camp Hill School for Boys and not far from King Edward VI Five Ways.